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For over four years now, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been circling the Moon, giving us an unprecedented look at one of the most familiar objects in the sky.

Along with the incredible amount of measurements and scientific data the satellite has been sending back to scientists here on Earth, LRO has also been taking pictures of the entire lunar surface. NASA recently stitched all those images together, and created a video that gives us a look at something we've never seen before

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It makes me ponder, much of the history of humanity is based on the fact that the same side of the moon is always facing us. From our perspective, if we could simply observe the moon rotating, things would be very different today.